HA1 - Drawing Portfolio

HA1 Task 1 - Mark-making Portfolio 

Anatomy

Exercise Number 1 - Direct observation portraits in pairs


1. full face

2.cheesy smile
3.don't stop
4.don't look

For the first task we had 4 minutes to draw the persons face in front of us, we used a Biro and had to try and fill the entire paper. I didn't end up finishing the drawing as I didn't take my time into account and so was left with a blank mask of a person.
For the second one, we had to draw the person in front of us' smile. We drew it using a biro and again had 4 minutes. I found this one easier to draw with the time i had because i didn't have to take anything like the shape of the head into account.
For the third drawing, we had 5 minutes to complete it and used a marker pen to do the drawing. The rule was that we were not aloud to take our pens off the paper. I found this one a little bit difficult as there were so many features to join up and i was aloud to move around as freely as usual like the glasses to the mouth.
Lastly, the final drawing was with a Biro and we were not aloud to look at the person after about 30 seconds of looking. This one was not as difficult as i thought it would be and after 4 minutes of drawing i was happy with what I finished with.

Exercise Number 2 - Secondary Observation (Selfie) Self-portraits

Six Selfie-portraits

With the drawing we had to take 6 selfies of  ourselves on out phones with different moods, these moods were: happy, angry, confused, excited, gloomy, and silly. I took as much time as i could with these drawings to try and get a good enough result, I found it a bit easier as i was drawing from a still imagine instead.

Exercise Number 3 - Manga Facial Expressions

The manga facial expression drawing was slightly easier than most other drawings because we drew form a YouTube tutorial video. I took me a bit longer tho as i kept pausing the video to try and draw it as the guy was doing it. 

Exercise Number 4 - Gridded and Scaled Parcour Drawing

This drawing was by pencil and drawn with the aid of a picture that had been previously gridded for us, the original poster was much smaller and the drawing we did was on two A3 pieces of paper. I didn't find it too difficult as each square had its own specific image to replicate which made it a bit easier. I then used the colours brown and black to fill in the background building and give it some definition.

Exercise Number 5 - Template Mythical Creature Drawing

in this exercise we took the image of a normal man and added: the head of a peacock, wings of a bat, claws of a crab, legs of a cheetah and feet of an eagle. After i drew the outline of each limb i then added a little detail such as the lines on the bat wings or the feathers from the head and then i coloured each thing and then outlined it to make it stand out more.



























Exercise Number 6 - Expressive Hands Drawing


for this drawing we knew from what we saw, we had to hold out our non drawing hand and replicate it onto paper, each hand had to represent a different emotion, the emotions were: Anger, Stop, OK and peace. After i drew a hand i then added detail like the lines in the hand and shading to make it look a little bit more realistic.




























Exercise Number 7 - Figure Movement Sequence Drawing

In this exercise we had to take multiple pictures of ourselves with a shield and sword and act out an attack scenario, then from all of the pictures we took 4 of them that form sequence from beginning to end and then traced over them with tracing paper to form a real life version of the sequence.

Exercise Number 8 - Silhouette Figures Drawing

For this drawing exercise we had to draw from a primary source like with the hand drawings, we drew the silhouette of a person that was near us, the plan was the draw the background of a person along with where the person would be.




























Perspective

Exercise Number 1 - Isometric, One, Two and Three Point Perspective Introduction

for this exercise, we used one, two and three point perspective to make the letters F,M,X and H appear to be 3D. For the first one which was isometric, we used a 30 degree angle and from each point on the letter F and connected them together.
For the one-point perspective we did the same as before but we sent the lines to the vanishing point to make the letter look like its at an angle.
For the two-point perspective, we took the letter x and we had one set of the line going to the vanishing point on the left and where we connected the lines we took that to another vanishing point to make it look more side on that the others.
For the last 3 point perspective we had a vanishing point left, right and right below, the lines left of the centre line went to the vanishing point on the left and respectively the right side went to the right as well as the verticle lines went to the  vanishing point below.

isometric

One-point

Two-point

Three - point

Exercise Number 2 - 2-point Perspective Background - Space station Video

For this task we watched a YouTube video which used two-point perspective to create a space station. we started off by creating a horizon with two vanishing points on the left and right side of the page, then using blank blocks to create structures and then added detail and after each thing was done we took a fine liner and went over everything and lastly added shading to add depth to some places such as the underneath of the main building. 

Exercise Number 3 - Crating Exercises

For this exercise we had 5 boxes and using the outline we had to create: a pyramid, sphere, cylinder, cone and a torus. For the pyramid, i used the based as it was and from each point i drew a line heading to the middle of the top square. 
For the sphere i drew a line from the middle of the bottom and curled it to the side and then back to the to top again, i then did the same sideways to create a sphere like object in the box.
The cylinder was a little bit easier as all we had to do was draw to circles top and bottom on the box and draw two lines connecting them to create a cylinder.

the cone was similar to the cylinder, i had to draw a circle as the base at the bottom of the box and then draw two lines towards the middle part at the top of the box.
Lastly the torus was slightly harder. we had to create a tire like object in a similar way to the cylinder and then add another circle in the centre to make it look more like a tire.

pyramid

sphere

cylinder

cone 

torus

Exercise Number 4 - Crating Application

With this exercise we used two point perspective and crating to create a gun. we had the model to use or we could use images on a screen, i used a google image search. We boxed out where the gun would be to begin with like where the handle and barrel would be and the rounded it off and added detail and then used the right point perspective to create the front of the gun.

Colour

Exercise Number 1 - Colour Introduction

with out colour wheel, we firstly added the main colours of red, yellow and blue then added the secondary colours (orange, green and purple) and they created tertiary colours which were added when you mix the primary and secondary colours.

1. colour wheel.

2. Colour schemes.

for this task we had to colour in letters with different colour. with the first one they had to be close to each other on the colour wheel like yellow green and blue the next one was opposite on the colour wheel like red and green and the last one was equally apart like yellow, red and blue.

Ideas Generation

Exercise Number 1 - Alternative Uses for Clothes Pegs

For this drawing exercise we took a peg and turned it into something else, for example i took the front on shape of the peg and turned it into the Eiffel tower but i also turned it on it side and used the shape and a watch strap holder.

Visual Communication

Exercise Number 1 - How To Guide

This exercise is a 6 step guide on how to create a BLT sandwich, i had to draw each step on how it is made and as well as make it as simple as possible. arrows were a way to direct someone to do something with having t write words.

Objects



Exercise Number 1 - Paper Tonal Studies

with this drawing we folded an A3 piece of paper and as well another piece of paper that was:tied, twisted, folded, curled. we then had to add shading into areas of the paper to make it look more realistic.

Textures

Exercise Number 1 - Willow Charcoal, Soft and Oil Pastels

in this drawing exercise we took an A3 piece of paper and folded it into 9 equal pieces and then went around and drew: leaves, fire extinguisher, grass, stones, shutter, metal floor plate, manhole cover, speed bump and brickwork but we used: willow charcoal, soft pastels and oil pastels. it was a bit more difficult because i haven't used pastels or charcoal before and the texture is a lot different to the usual pencil.